A Little Melamine In Your Cookies?

Here's yet another health warning about the toxic products coming from the Peoples' Republic of China.  While small children have been hardest hit by melamine in their diet, not much is being said about adults...

Melamine Cookies Found in Netherlands

Two kinds of Chinese-made cookies have been pulled of the shelves in the Netherlands beause they contained high concentrations of the chemical melamine.  This latest recall is the latest addition to the list of melamine-tainted products being found in food products...

Melamine Milk Scandal Spreads to Europe

New milk powder tests are underway in Europe as regulators concluded that even though Chinese milk imports are banned within the European Union, there may still be contamination within products in Europe that pose a...

Today is National Chocolate Chip Day!

Today is National Chocolate Chip Day!!!  There are so many things you can make with chocolate chips...chocolate chip cookies, pancakes, brownies, muffins, ice cream, waffles, granola bars, pie, crepes, cupcakes,...

Girl Scout Sells 17,328 Boxes of Cookies

15-year-old Jennifer Sharpe is financing a trip to Europe with the profits from her sale of 17, 328 boxes of Girl Scout cookies. Her feat astonished Girl Scout officials and wowed local cookie bakers."Jennifer...

Report Warns on Serious Mental Problems in Teens Using Pot

Marijuana is one of the world’smost commonly used illegal drugs. There are approximately 300 millionusers worldwide and 28 million users in the United States alone."Now, according to a new White House Office of...

An eighth-grader boy charged of felony

"An eighth-grader (13 years old) from Morton Middle School is accused in putting crumbled cookies, made of peanut butter, into the lunch box of another eight-grader, suffering from severe peanuts allergy."

Girl Scouts boycott cookies to save apes

Some plucky Girl Scouts have decided to take a stand on the cookies that group is famous for. They've learned the production of palm oil, an ingredient in the cookies, is bad for the habitat of endangered Indonesian...

Japanese Cookies show a Human Face with Ningyo-yaki

They don't talk to you but Ningyo-yaki (or doll shaped cookies) have a human quality to them when they display faces as some do. Japan Airlines Guide to Local Souvenirs of Tokyo describes Ningyoyaki as "baked confectionery with a thin skin surrounding a rich bean...

Italian Biscotti Traditions

My grandparents immigrated to the United States from Puglia Italy in 1912. Like many Italians they brought their culture, traditions and recipes. Our family has especially enjoyed our traditional Christmas Eve...

Mrs. Fields Scrambles to Add Christmas to Online Site « This Week's Top Scrooge

" Type in “Christmas” into the Mrs. Fields website search box and you get a page that states: “Sorry, no records were found with the search parameters you provided. Please try a new search now.” This...

Feds Bust Marijuana-Laced Snack Factory

"SAN FRANCISCO — Federal agents said Thursday that they shut down a factory that made marijuana-laced barbecue sauce, chocolate-covered pretzels and other “enhanced” snacks intended for medical users of the...

As I sit with my laptop, using it at McCormick Place...

This is so disheartening. Especially as I was emailing yesterday, in the presence of ubiquitous laptops and computer geeks, in public and I don't know if the network was encrypted or not. Just as things get easy and comfortable to use, the bad element sneaks in. Sigh."He even...

Warning of webmail wi-fi hijack

"The potential for attack is pretty severe."Heard at the Vegas Black Hat conference"Demonstrated at the Black Hat hacker conference in Las Vegas, the tools make it far easier to steal account details, said Robert Graham of Errata Security. Identifying files called cookies are...

These Tanks make Cookies not War, Tank Goodness

Like many others the Minneapolis based Tank family started baking cookies for fun, friends and neighbors.  At a certain point, they had the zany idea of turning it in a business and named it Tank Goodness of course.More songs about Cookies not War on Serge the Concierge

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